Southern Baptists lukewarm on Bush address

U.S. President George W. Bush got polite applause Tuesday for his brief, pre-taped video address to the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest evangelical denomination, which is holding its annual meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana.

That stood in marked contrast to the standing ovations he received last year from the same group when he did a live broadcast link to its meeting in San Antonio.

This may have been because his remarks this year were pre-taped as opposed to being broadcast from the White House live, as they have been in previous years.

Still, the lukewarm response may also reflect a cooling of conservative evangelicals toward the Republican Party.

White evangelical Protestants did more than any other group to put Bush into the White House and there is a feeling among some that he did not pursue their anti-abortion and gay rights agenda with the vigor they had hoped for.

Wow, who’d have thought one of the most bigoted and oppressive presidents in history, both in terms of legislature passed or vetoed and in personal remarks and speeches, isn’t bigoted enough for some people.

Well, Falwell’s down for the count so maybe if the rest of the so called “Moral Majority” type media whores start dying off morons like this won’t be able to steal elections so easily anymore.

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